Books - "history"
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Battling the Land
200 Years of Rural Australia
Softcover super octavo (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Rob Linn Australia history natural history rural Australia
Heartland: New Zealand's Meeting Places
softcover imperial square octavo (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Whitcoulls 2008
KEYWORDS: specials Stephen Robinson new zealand pictorial history photographic history illustrated
New Zealand, or Zealandia, The Britain of the South: Volume 1
With Two Maps and Seven Coloured Views (Missing)
First edition, volume 1 only, octavo, blue cloth boards with blind-stamped decorative rule to boards & gilt motif to centre front board, xvi + 328pp, G (lacks spine, lacks fep, front board only attached by one stitch, fading & chaffing to boards, fraying & bruising to board corners, some tape repair to board/spine folds, tape reinforcement to hinge at centre (pg 192/193), browning to page edges, some foxing)
PUBLISHER: Edward Stanford 1857
KEYWORDS: Charles Hursthouse New Zealand history geology scenery climate natural history flora fauna minerals Maori government agriculture immigration
Books on Egypt and Chaldaea Volumes 9 - 17 (IX - XVII): A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII BC30
Eight volume set with large coloured folding map at rear of vol 1 (Vol IX)
Eight-volume set, octavo, browny-orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board & black decorative rule to front board, xxiv + 222 + large folding map (vol.1), xvi + 207pp (vol.2), xvi + 219pp (vol.3), xvi + 241pp (vol.4), xvi + 219pp (vol.5), xxxiv + 230pp (vol.6), xvi + 251pp (vol.7), xvi + 321pp (vol.8), all vols illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, several fading spots to spines, tanning to eps, v occasional page corners creased, moderate wear to spine of vol 1, light fraying and moderate soiling)
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench et al 1902
KEYWORDS: classics ancient history Egypt Chaldaea ancient Egyptian history EA Wallis Budge
Sweet Thunder
softcover rectangle saddle-stapled octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Lodestar Press
KEYWORDS: specials trains steam travel railway history richard croker history photography
Steel Roads of Australia
Quarto, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus prelims, 145pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light foxing to inside)
PUBLISHER: IPL Books 1991
KEYWORDS: Australia transport railways trains steam engines history Colin Taylor Geoffrey Churchman pictorial photographic history
Why I Survived the A-Bomb
hardcover super octavo (fine) in d/w (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Institute for Historical Review 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Akira Kohchi atom bomb chemica warfare history hiroshima history memoir
A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo 1755-1870
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Texas A&M University Press 1983
KEYWORDS: specials Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa USA Laredo Texas Mexican American Mexico history economics social history
The First Great Civilizations
paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pelican 1977
KEYWORDS: specials history mesopotamia indus valley egypt jacquetta hawkes history
The Lyalldale Waltz: A Light-hearted Look at Rural Life about South Canterbury over the past Seventy Years
Lacks fep, inscribed, signed & dated by author, octavo, maroon boadrs with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, iv + 219pp, illus, VG (some fading to spine extrems, owner's name & address twice to half title verso, some tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (heavy staining, 2cm tatty portion of loss to upper spine extrem, tatty tears with loss to lower spine, creasing to all edges, nicks to all corners)
PUBLISHER: Isaac Thompson 1975
KEYWORDS: Isaac M Thompson New Zealand Canterbury Kopje Pareora Estate history farming local history
Ned Kelly: Man and Myth
One section celotaped into book, octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Cassell Australia 1980
KEYWORDS: specials colin cave ned kelly australia history criminal history
Narrative of a Residence in Various Parts of New Zealand. Together with a Description of the Present State of the Company's Settlements
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1972
KEYWORDS: specials Charles Heaphy New Zealand artisit travel autobiography memoir natural history politics history
The Epic of Flight: The Carrier War
Quarto hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Time Life Books 1983
KEYWORDS: specials Clark G Reynolds Time-Life books military history Second World War Two naval airforce history
Dance of the Peacocks: New Zealanders in Exile in the Time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Vintage 2004
KEYWORDS: specials James McNeish New Zealand James Bertram Geoffrey Cox Dan Davin Ian Milner John Mulgan biography biographies memoirs letters diaries interviews history Hitler Mao Tse-Tung war military history Rhodes scholars
Mao Zedong's Art of War
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Hai Feng 1993
KEYWORDS: specials liu jikun china history miltary war history
The South of the North: Manawatu and Its Neighbours
softcover quarto, (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Massey University 2000
KEYWORDS: specials B G R Saunders new zealand local history manawatu pictorial history
Bragge's Wellington and the Wairarapa
hardcover oblong quarto (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Millwood 1974
KEYWORDS: specials William Main new zealand illus history wellington wairarapa pictorial history photography
The Scallop: Studies of a Shell and Its Influences on Humankind
Quarto hardcover (VG) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Shell Transport and Trading 1957
KEYWORDS: specials Ian Cox art history science natural history
Continental Circus, 1949 - 2000
Text in English German and French, folio, illus black heavy card boards, 588pp, illus, VG+ (owner's address abel to f.e.p., v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Chronosports S.A. 2001
KEYWORDS: Maurice Bula Jean-Claude Schertenleib motorbikes motorcycle racing history statistics history Text in English French German
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, in all TImes and Countries, especially in England and in France, in Two Volumes
Two-volume set, scarce, imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines & blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, coated eps, xi + 436pp (vol.1), 444pp (vol.2), VG- (6cm portion of vol 2 lower spine missing, rear board vol.1 detached, heavy bruising & fraying to spine extrems & boards corners, browning to spines, staining to boards, bookseller's labels to front pastedowns, owner's ex libris labels to frotn pastedowns, heavy browning to page edges, hinges cracked, pencil drawing to last page vol.1, sporadic light foxing, slight damage to v. occasional page edges)
PUBLISHER: Tinsely Brother 1870
KEYWORDS: Andrew Steinmetz gambling history gaming tables history ancient Rome Egypt Europe lotteries entertainment